that fucking RULES

Even if it is a land mine, you can usually find a quality vinyl/upholstery joint to do a custom top on the old hardware. It’s not like this thing has some sort of sanctity it needs to maintain. 

$2,300 for a likely no-rust vehicle with a 90's Toyota motor that is at worst, half-dead? The options for this poll should have been:

Lol, but they will sell those the same way Dodge sold the GT version of the Grand Caravan: It was the only one on the lot in the color they liked.

“You underestimate how many people live here and how little I care for their lives” - Josef Stalin, 1942

Torch, I sincerely appreciate the honesty. While we’re in the confessional, can you share who in god’s name is ordering the godforsaken slideshows?

Do we continue with petroleum based transport?

I get this thinking, but if we are doing this at the scale the governments of the world are pushing for, we won’t be able to keep that isolated.

Look, I’ll be the first to point out that for most of the last 20 years, it was usually a bad faith argument that the mining of the minerals necessary for EV batteries made them worse for the environment over the full vehicle lifespan than the average economy ICE.

I sincerely hope this makes it to the top. 

Of course, the statistics are what they are. The “weird argument” is what causes a person more anxiety: A car that is less likely to catch fire in a crash, but more likely to go up randomly vs. a car with the opposite characteristics. I don’t think someone is out line for being more concerned about the latter, even…

It was progressively getting less safe for riders before the SUV/Crossover craze took off. The argument my Uncles (whom all rode) used to keep my cousins and I from riding was just how more traffic there is and how much faster it goes in the 20th century. Cars are so much more sure footed at higher speed now, it leads…

Damn straight. My dad and his three brothers all rode, but implored all my cousins and I not to, sheerly based on the increase in traffic, the speed at which it moves, and distracted driving. It really was safer pre-2000's.

Even without the move towards bigger vehicles, the increase in traffic and how fast it moves was enough to get my dad and all my uncles who rode to implore me and my cousins not to. 

Well yeah, I just prefer having the technical discussions before we come to leadership just being stubborn.

With how much the ground and shifted towards EV’s in the last five years, its curious why Toyota has not abandoned that ship yet. Regardless of whether the shift has been driven by market, government, or technology, the only portion of the industry where hydrogen seems to have a prayer is trucking, which they are not…

“He and his passenger even claimed there wasn’t a huge difference between the drive feel of the spares and proper front tires.”

This rules because I think it would make a lot of tech bros come to grips with how much of the population could not give a flying fuck about an autonomous vehicle unless you can flat out sleep in it while it takes you to work.

Every time I read a piece about Harley, there’s the jeopardy music playing as we wait for them to be bought by some conglomerate who does not return it to its former glory, but runs it effectively enough to be a profitable nostalgia trip.

Eh, this is a really weird argument. A tank of gas is more “flammable” than a battery, but gas doesn’t ignite without being antagonized by a collision or something else weird. Batteries are more liable to go up without any *obvious* reason. While that means they catch fire “less often” then gas cars when you include…